What will they be studying, truth or propaganda?

http://claudeadams.blogspot.com/2008/05/rwanda-toward-real-history.html

to keep quiet is to comply with this tyrants.

Absolutely. I couldn’t have said it better myself. There is so much misinformation out there…and some people can only take the real information in small doses. But I appreciate your contribution.

If you would like, email me more information about the petition you’re working on, and I can make a blog post and other announcements about it. Email at: backtomyrootsblog at gmail.com

Don’t get me wrong. I am a Rwandan by Nationality who believes that the world has failed in Rwanda once again by delaying the prosecution of the RPF members. Currently, I am working on petitioning the US government to fund a tribunal for RPF members. Please join me in doing so for your respective governments. Simply the culture of impunity must be stopped once for all. We do not need sacred cows anymore and anybody who sheds human blood should be held accountable.
Judging by the results that followed the RPF invasion, one can simply conclude that the Tutsi revolution was not worth all the blood. Kagame knew early in advance that any attempts to cieze Kigali by force would lead to genocides. The decision to strike president Habyarimana’s plane was a poor military strategy. The poor fellow had just returned after signing a peace deal with his-would be assassinators. This made many Rwandans to lose confidence in the governing institutions and resulted to Anarchy. Considering that just rigging elections in Kenya can spark ethnic tension, there is no doubt that the killing of Habyarimana sparked the genocides.

The former US Ambassador to Rwanda has denied vehemently that he does not think the Hutu government in Kigali had any plans to exterminate the Tutsi before president Habyarimana’s death. He believes that such a plan would not have gone unnoticed by the CIA. The latest findings reveal that the CIA was actively involved in the Rwandan cataclysmic fighting on the side of RPF Kagame without the knowledge of the Department of State. No wonder most top US officials were surprised by the events!!!

Again, there is this top USAID diplomat who organized a Tutsi conference in Washington DC to attack Rwanda. The guy has now confessed after realizing that it will never be simple for Kagame.
Although, Kagames RPF managed information wisely and manipulated the books, it seems they never succeeded. Their techniques included killing people and finally incinerating bodies so as to kill evidence. This is recorded by a 1996 New York Times.

People like me still managed to survive, and to keep quiet is to comply with this tyrants. That is why we shall never stop until justice prevails. God bless Rwanda

I don’t want you to feel as though you are moderating between Hutus and Tutsi because 1. you don’t have to, and 2. that’s not what this discussion is about 3. it probably won’t stop the back and fourth because this issue is much more than a discussion on a blog especially for Rwandans. Because even as everyone might “agree” here, innocent people are dying, and being tried for crimes they didn’t commit, while some of the criminals walk around free. And the world supports and perpetuates that system because they don’t know any better. The information has deliberately been kept from them.

Also, you should be real careful about assuming the identity of posters, and their association/identification. Because as you can see, without knowing my identity or background, I’ve also been labeled a genocidaire. Real peculiar don’t you think?

EVERYONE:

As long as criminals continue to roam free with IMPUNITY, there may be no peace or reconciliation for Rwandans. Once the playing field is leveled for both sides, and both sides can speak freely about their experiences and what occurred and what they saw, without one group’s experiences being trivialized, and this forceful suppression of information is stopped, real progress can be made.

This discussion, at least for me, and the majority of my other posts deals with the issue of accountability. A whole group of people has been demonized and blamed for crimes which were committed by BOTH SIDES due to deliberate misinformation and propaganda. The playing field needs to be leveled so that the involved parties can come to terms with what happened and they can find sustainable solutions for co-existence.

One minor (major actually) detail that seems to be constantly overlooked is that there were probably as many if not more (definitely more) Hutus who died during the genocide. Some sources claim that for every Tutsi that was killed, two Hutus were killed. Yet only Tutsi were victims of it right? WRONG. They are the only ones who are “allowed” to talk about victims they lost in the genocide, they are the ones who are “allowed” to heal from the atrocities, while innocent Hutus who also lost people in the genocide, who know a different reality of what happened are paying for Kagame’s crimes.

And let’s not simplify what happened and label them moderates, because that’s assuming that they along with ALL TUTSIs supported the Tutsi Rebels (a subjective claim that should be left up to the individuals to speak for themselves – which they can’t because if they do and they disagree with the “moderate” label being given to them and they don’t support the Tutsi rebels they are automatically “genocidaires”). Notice how anyone who speaks otherwise is considered a “genocidaire” regardless of being Rwandan.

I am simply providing a voice for the voiceless.

I think it could be easily agreed that with power in this modern world tends to breed corruption. This is true where I live here in America and it is true in the small country of Rwanda. There are very few national or global leaders with power that are not facilitating corruption or discrimination in some form.

Kagame may not have been born in Rwanda but I have a great comparison for the importance of this fact. When Africans were shipped to America as slaves the first generation of “freed” blacks after the Civil War did NOT forget about what the government had done to the previous generation. Additionally the American government may have “freed” the slaves but they were still discriminatory toward the whole African-American race.

Similarly Kagame felt he could not forget the struggle of his people to live in the country in which they came from even though he was first-generation Ugandan (or whatever he was). The situation the Tutsi had to live in were not better in Uganda than Rwanda – to the Tutsi Rwanda was their home.

But with the power he gathered he sacrificed innocent lives. This is a natural consequence of power – the corruption – the use of force. And Kagame replaced to previous person of power – Habyarimana, who was also corrupted by power instilling discriminatory laws. Today there may be stability in Rwanda (this is something I personally am unaware of) but at what expense to the Hutu? Does Kagame instill similar discriminatory laws for the trade of stability?

Additionally Kagame has used his greed to continue the plundering of Congolese raw material. Kagame has been at the root of inciting ethnic tensions in Eastern Congo because Kabila did not allow Rwanda to control the Congolese government. And likewise the original Kabila has equally as dubious a past as Kagame or Habyarimana. There are no reasons to celebrate these leaders – they will continue to do what they will do regardless. The obvious thing is to focus on the reconciliation.

If you are a Hutu you say “I recognize that there were terrible atrocities on both sides during the last half-century. But I, personally, am not one of those Hutu who committed that act and I am ready and mature enough to make peace with my Tutsi neighbor.” Likewise if you are Tutsi you say the same thing only switching “Hutu” and “Tutsi” around.

Laying blame – especially if you did not lose someone personally from the mess – is not effective in creating peace. If you did lose someone personally the best thing you could do for that person is not become what had killed them – and what killed them was blanket blaming… of a whole ethnicity. There was an individual who pulled that trigger – it is your job to never be that individual and dissuade others (not through blame but through connections) to be the person behind the trigger. And the best way to make sure nobody is behind that trigger is resolving a half-century long battle that has no winners and only losers.

To Sunkissed – I appreciate your response and read your entry. I understand your beliefs and your resources and there may be verifiability to it all. It’s hard since the documentation was scrapped to ever know if it was a forgery or not. But whether it was the Tutsi/Americans who killed Habyarimana or Hutu extremists themselves it’s secondary to fighting for peaceful and civil relations.

Ah, Kagame, America’s favorite African bitch. Yeah, the world stood by and watched Kagame assassinate two presidents, armed him while he terrorized two countries under the pretenses of saving Tutsi from genocide and promoted all those who helped him. (Catch 22 Anyone?) History is funny that way.

The level of terrorism that exists for citizens who dare dissent or assert themselves is unbelievable in Rwanda right now. Real democratic right?

And we’re so quick to point fingers at “those who did the genocide” right? How do we know if you’re not among them and you contributed to the genocide?